Translation Careers and Trends in Internationalism
In its literal sense, the term globalization represents the process of taking business activities that were conducted on a local level and performing them on an international or global level. Social scientists often describe the action of globalization as being driven by a combination of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends. This purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of globalization on language translation services and how it has gained increasing important and has created several critically important focuses that include medical translation, legal translation and within the field of translation services.
We often hear radio talk show commentators describe multinationalism as the means of creating a one world government but this is likely an over simplified view. While some have worried that globalization would bring havoc to the world overnight, it has taken time to see many changes due to many of the deterrents that have existed since the start of time. As an example, different languages, cultures, beliefs, monetary systems and political systems have delayed its progress. Other barriers exist between countries that prevent humans from seeking immigration in other parts of the world or require elaborate and selective application processes that entail marriage certificate translation, birth certificate translation, divorce decree translation and more.
Even though globalization has not brought the economic destruction that many thought would, we have seen dramatic changes in our lives. An example of this change we have seen completely new careers in such as that focus on providing language translation services that center around contracts, patents, copyrights, and immigration issues. Yet, internationalization has not just influenced the world of litigation and arbitration, it has also influenced the lives of investors who follow the international exchange markets. Even outside of our professional lives, we see the effects of globalization in multilingual broadcasts of sporting events like soccer championships. Therefore, we can clearly see that globalization necessitates translation services in our public and private lives.
While the concept of globalization has been strategically evaluated in Japan since the end of World War II, the ideas behind it are still relatively new to most people in the United States. On a side note, the terms is still so new that my word processor always indicates that I have made a typing error but instead of trying to fix the error, I have typed this paper about globalization and how it related to the subject of translation. Historians, Business writers, Economists, and Social Scientists are given credit for coining the term. With origins of the term aside, the very notion of globalization has changed all of our lives and virtually every industry that we know. Even in the medical arena, workers are now employed in nearly every county hospital and given the responsibility of providing accurate translations of patient records.
Among translation workers, most of us contended that this globalization is largely a good thing, producing more opportunities, a better world and a different. While most people don’t work as professional translation workers, most of us are familiar with Thomas Friedman who pointed out to all of us that no two countries that have McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other.
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